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Gov. Justice closes schools through March 27

needed. Our bus drivers also loaded up their school buses and drove their normal routes throughout the lunch time to meet the kids.” Tropics Restaurant & Bar, The Tea Shoppe at Seneca Center, and the other dozen restaurants served lunches, too. Fat Angelo’s offered free pizza to kids. Pug’s Homemade Italian served pasta or small pizzas and apples. Tuesday was Bartini Prime’s first day. “When people pulled up, I’d hand them a bag,” Byers said at the time. “Kids would get out—everybody likes taking pictures with the camel.” Lunches included pasta and meatballs, vegetables, cut fruit, bagged pretzels, and juice boxes. Then, Tuesday night, Justice ordered restaurant dining rooms across the state closed starting at midnight. It was just as the Byerses predicted. And it happened so suddenly that Bartini Prime and all the other restaurants were caught with coolers full of food. As the week rolled on, whether they were offering standing in line.

(Left) Crab Shack Caribba offered lunches for students after school was canceled. (Above) A Lyft driver delivered lunches to people she knew needed them every day March 16–20. Lunch one day consisted of a hot ham sandwich and lots of sides.

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